The Canadian Press CRESTON, B.C.–Two people have been charged more than a year after a cheetah was spotted wandering the snowy roads in southeastern B.C. The B.C. Conservation Officers Service says Earl Pfeifer and Carol Plato each have been charged with one count of possessing an alien species without a […]
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The Canadian Press TORONTO–Toronto Public Health says norovirus may be the cause of an outbreak that has affected more than 200 students at a city college, but the agency is waiting for laboratory confirmation. Dr. Michael Finkelstein, an associate medical officer of health at the agency, said the illness first […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA–Veteran Ontario NDP MP Charlie Angus said yesterday he has moved into the second phase of his possible campaign to lead his party. Angus, who launched a new website, said he is trying to build a national team of volunteers and collect donations after spending weeks reaching […]
By Lindsey Tanner The Associated Press CHICAGO — The first national estimate suggests that nearly half of U.S. men have genital infections caused by a sexually transmitted virus and that 1 in 4 has strains linked with several cancers. Most human papillomavirus infections cause no symptoms and most disappear without […]
The Associated Press VICTORIA — Canada’s Pacific Coast province of British Columbia on Wednesday approved the expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline from the Alberta oil sands that would allow oil exports to Asia. British Columbia Premier Christy Clark announced the conditions her government placed on the project have […]
By Rob Gillies THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TORONTO — Actress Jane Fonda said Wednesday that people should not be fooled by “good-looking liberals” like Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who “disappointed” her by approving pipelines from the Alberta oil sands. Fonda said after touring the oil sands area that environmentalists everywhere […]
By Marilynn Marchione The Associated Press Weekend warriors, take a victory lap. People who pack their workouts into one or two sessions a week lower their risk of dying over roughly the next decade nearly as much as people who exercise more often, new research suggests. Even people who get […]
By Lauran Neergaard The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Most babies should start eating peanut-containing foods well before their first birthday, say guidelines released Thursday that aim to protect high-risk tots and other youngsters, too, from developing the dangerous food allergy. The new guidelines from the National Institutes of Health mark […]
By Malcolm Ritter The Associated Press NEW YORK — Pregnancy affects not only a woman’s body: It changes parts of her brain too, a new study says. When researchers compared brain scans of women before and after pregnancy, they spotted some differences in 11 locations. They also found hints that […]
By Lindsey Tanner The Associated Press CHICAGO — What if your doctor’s gender could influence your chance of surviving a visit to the hospital? A big study of older patients hospitalized for common illnesses raises that provocative possibility ‚Äî and also lots of questions. Patients who got most of their […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO—Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown again is trying to keep a lid on social conservative views in his caucus, ordering a member of the legislature to retract comments about how some issues would be a priority for a Tory government. Ontario’s French-language public broadcaster, TFO (Television […]
The Canadian PressAlexander Panetta WASHINGTON—The number of Americans seeking refugee status in Canada has experienced a significant bump this year, increasing more than five times in November from the same period a year earlier. The overall numbers, however, remain tiny. Few people seek to flee the world’s largest economy—and one […]
